I am Content, Courageous and Hopeful

Prologue

Can one be ever content? In fact, I am. This is my testimony. I am done working for money, or dreaming of a home for the family, which are me and wife. I am retired but with just a pittance for a pension. My wife is retired, too. But unlike me she has no pension to turn to. In the standards of today we are as poor as a church mouse.

Anyway, I am content to where the Lord has brought us. [We have been granted permanent residency status in Canada, where my daughter and family are living. We live with her and her two grade schoolers.] Better still, I don't have anxiety [wife has plenty though] over our future. In fact, I have abundant hope of a bright future.

What's the circumstance that my wife and I are in? It began eight years ago when God entered my life. Since then, God  has been our treasure - and this is the reason for that out of ordinary feeling of content, anxiety-free and a very hopeful state of mind.

God Provides for Elisha
Through a Wealthy Woman

2 Kings 4:8-10 ESV

One day Elisha went on to Shunem, where a wealthy woman lived, who urged him to eat some food. So whenever he passed that way, he would turn in there to eat food. And she said to her husband, “Behold now, I know that this is a holy man of God who is continually passing our way. Let us make a small room on the roof with walls and put there for him a bed, a table, a chair, and a lamp, so that whenever he comes to us, he can go in there.”

God Provides Ample Resources
For His Children Through Others

Luke 10:1-12 ESV

After this the Lord appointed seventy-two others and sent them on ahead of him, two by two, into every town and place where he himself was about to go. And he said to them, “The harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few. Therefore pray earnestly to the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into his harvest. Go your way; behold, I am sending you out as lambs in the midst of wolves. CARRY NO MONEY BAG, NO KNAPSACK, NO SANDALS, and greet no one on the road. Whatever house you enter, first say, ‘Peace be to this house!’ AND IF A SON OF PEACE IS THERE, YOUR PEACE WILL REST UPON HIM. BUT IF NOT IT WILL RETURN TO YOU. AND REMAIN IN THE SAME HOUSE, EATING AND DRINKING WHAT THEY PROVIDE. FOR THE LABORER DESERVES HIS WAGES. Do not go from house to house. Whenever you enter a town and they receive you, eat what is set before you. Heal the sick in it and say to them, ‘The kingdom of God has come near to you.’ But whenever you enter a town and they do not receive you, go into its streets and say, ‘Even the dust of your town that clings to our feet we wipe off against you. Nevertheless know this, that the kingdom of God has come near.’ I tell you, it will be more bearable on that day for Sodom than for that town.